Ryzen 7 2700 drops to $220 on Amazon as new X570 motherboards leak

[hahahanoobs]

Well, for one thing, the 9400F Is going to be borderline bad silicon (that's why it is sold as an F SKU - the gpu on the die was defective). That means higher temperatures (which is saying something on Gen 9s) and potential instability down the road. These F chips are literally garbage that Intel would be throwing away if it weren't for their current shortfall in manufacturing capacity.

For another, I picked up a 1600 for $109 a couple of months ago, and it runs 4ghz on all cores all day long, which is more than good enough to cap my 1080 at 1440p in every game. It's a placeholder until I can get a 12 core Zen2, then will go into my server to run Plex.

Lastly, that same $170 is going to get you 8+ cores with smp at the same clock and probably the same IPC that use half the power.

I'm going to pretend someone buying AMD didn't just say a 65w Intel chip runs hot. AMD has a long history with producing hot and power hungry chips. Notice the 2800(X) doesn't exist even with a shrink to 12nm.

99% of gamers do not benefit from more than 8 cores, but AMD's "moar cores" marketing sure worked on you didn't it?

Ryzen is best for gaming when the GPU is doing most of the work, like @ 1440p...

I'm glad we had this chat. You learned a lot and that's all that matters.

TECHSPOT agrees:
"The true Intel alternative to the Ryzen 2600 right now is the Core i5-9400F. This newer CPU can be had for $170 matching the R5 2600 and out of the box the i5-9400F is arguably the better CPU. We're talking about a six-core processor with no Hyper-Threading (6-core, 6-thread), built on a 14 nm process and no integrated graphics."

 

[msroadkill612]

"Meanwhile, a 20% discount to the Ryzen 5 2600 means it annihilates the i5-8400, which performs roughly the same for $35 more. Thumbs up to AMD."

.. and places it against i5-9400F which is also on sale for $170

Amazon and Newegg:
2600 - $199 on sale for $164
9400F - $169 everyday

But you're only getting 4core/threads instead of 4/core/8threads on AMD. Multpile threads DO help on non multi threaded work loads. But because of the 4t/4c, the i5 is only good for gaming and not even by much, if at all in some circumstances

Ahem - 6 cores 12 threads.

 

[hahahanoobs]

Ahem - 6 cores 12 threads.

Yup, 6 Intel cores recommended over Ryzen's 12 cores in games!!